1757 in music

The year 1757 in music involved some significant compositions.

Events None listed

Classical music Thomas Arne – 7 Trio Sonatas, Op. 3 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.38 Fugue in A major, H.101 Keyboard Sonata in D minor, H.105 Keyboard Sonata in G major, H.119 L'Auguste, H.122 La Xénophone et La Sybille, H.123 Georg Benda – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas Anna Bon – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 2 Louis-Claude Daquin – Livre de Noëls Johann Friedrich Fasch – Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (written for the birthday of Catherine the Great) Carl Heinrich Graun – Te Deum, GraunWV B:VI:2 George Frideric Handel – The Triumph of Time and Truth Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op.2 (written between 1757 and 1762) Johann Gottlieb Janitsch – Sonata da Camera in D major, Op.5 Leopold Mozart – Concerto for Trombone in G major Charles Noblet – Giovanni Battista Serini Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major Keyboard Sonata in C major Keyboard Sonata in E major Georg Philipp Telemann – Lyksalig Tvillung-Rige!, TWV 12:10

Opera Florian Leopold Gassmann — Merope Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Lo solachianello imbroglione Niccolò Jommelli — Temistocle Jean-Philippe Rameau – L'enlèvement d'Adonis Giuseppe Scarlatti — La clemenza di Tito Tommaso Traetta – Didone abbandonata

Methods and theory writings

Giovanni Batista Martini – Storia della musica Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg Anfangsgründe der theoretischen Musik (Leipzig: Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf) Handbuch bey dem Generalbasse und der Composition (Berlin: Gottlieb August Lange) Nicolo Pasquali – Thorough-Bass Made Easy Jean-Philippe Rameau – Réponse de M. Rameau à MM. les éditeurs de l'Encyclopédie sur leur dernier avertissement

Births January 28 – Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, composer (died 1821) January 29 – Lazare Rameau, composer (died 1794) February 17 – Antonio Calegari, composer (died 1828) April 22 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (died 1841) May 27 – Caroline von Brandenstein, composer (died 1813) June 18 – Ignaz Pleyel, composer and piano-maker (died 1831) August 21 – Joseph Franz Ratschky, librettist (died 1810) September 6 – August Friedrich Ernst Langbein, German humorist and lyricist (died 1835) November 28 – William Blake, poet and lyricist (died 1827) date unknown Osip Kozlovsky, composer (died 1831) Alessandro Pepoli, librettist (died 1796)

Deaths February 11 – Mauro D’Alay, composer and violinist (born 1687) February 25 – Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani, composer (born c. 1690) March 20 – Johann Paul Kunzen, composer (born 1696) March 27 – Johann Stamitz, violinist and composer (born 1717) July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti, composer (born 1685) August 11 – Jose Pradas Gallen, composer September 28 – Andrea Zani, violinist and composer (born 1696) (carriage accident) October 11 – Zacharias Hildebrandt, organ builder (born 1688) November 8 – Pierre Prowo, composer date unknown Lodovico Filippo Laurenti, composer (born 1693) Balthasar Siberer, organ teacher (born 1679) probable – Jean-Baptiste Masse, cellist and composer (born c. 1700)

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